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Nearly 200 students, family, friends, and faculty came together to celebrate CTAHR’s graduating students at the Spring 2018 Convocation at Kennedy Theatre. Student marshals Michelle Au, Mark Oandasan, and Nathaniel Wehr were recognized, along with honor society inductees for Phi Upsilon Omicron and Gamma Sigma Delta.
Those at the Kona Research Station got a first-hand lesson in the value of CPR and first aid when ag tech Nick Yamauchi used these skills to save Marc Meisner’s life during a medical emergency in the field. At the annual 2018 Hawai‘i County staff meeting held December 7 in Kona, Nick was awarded a certificate of commendation for his outstanding, life-saving aid.
Zhiqiang Cheng (PEPS) and Norman Nagata (TPSS, Maui CES) organized the 2018 Maui Turfgrass and Landscape Pest Management Workshop at CTAHR Maui Extension Office, including updates on important turfgrass and golf course pests such as frit fly, take-all patch, mini ring, rover ant, coconut rhinoceros beetle, and lobate lac scale.